Photo: R. Sieben · CC BY 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Irricana than in 77% of Canadian towns
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 26%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Still, the local count comes to 7.6 violent incidents and 18.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On the record of crime the police covering Irricana reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A− for safety. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 45.6 and 44.8.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Beiseker detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Irricana
Below Alberta’s typical town
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Irricana scores 44.7. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Violent crime scores 45.6 on Irricana’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 44.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Irricana’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Irricana itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 8 km away.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The detachment closest to Irricana, 7,560 residents, recorded about 59 violent incidents a year, 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Property crime adds about 140 a year and other violations 57 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Which crimes make up Irricana’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Irricana runs highest on mischief (5.7 per 1,000 against 4.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 20.3 | 2.6 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11.7 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.8 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 24 | 3.1 | 5% |
| Mischief | 44 | 5.7 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 17.3 | 2.3 | 45% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 11.7 | 1.5 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Year by year in Irricana: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 46, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 43.6. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Irricana | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 46 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 44.6 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Irricana, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Irricana
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irricana | 1,240 | 44.7 | 45.6 | A− |
| Airdrie (29 km) | 92,544 | 44.3 | 48.7 | A− |
| Crossfield (33 km) | 4,075 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
| Strathmore (33 km) | 16,416 | 66.8 | 78.9 | B− |
| Chestermere (35 km) | 31,671 | 43.2 | 43.5 | A− |
| Wheatland County (44 km) | 10,150 | 298.8 | 486.4 | D− |
Irricana sits above 2 of the 5 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, Airdrie (29.2 km away), scores 44.3 against 44.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Irricana has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 29–44 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Irricana
Is Irricana safe?
Irricana measures 44.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 7.6 violent incidents and 18.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Irricana?
Police record mischief most, 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (4.8) and fraud (3.8).
Is crime going up in Irricana?
Not much: the index went from 44.6 in 2023 to 43.6 in 2025.
How much of Irricana’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 59% of violent crime and 14% of everything else, 26% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Irricana together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).